Hat-felting machine



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HAT FELTING MACHINE.

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HAT FELTINGVMAGHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES 0. GRANT AND JARVIS C. BRUSH, OF NEWBUBG, N153" YORK.

HAT-FELITING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 361,58 6, dated April19, 1887. Application filed November 12, 1886. Serial No. 218,704; (Nomodel.)

Belt-pulleys H H revolve with the central gear-wheels, FF, on the shaftsG G, being attached to projecting bosses on the said gearwheels, orotherwise connected thereto. By these pulleys the central gear-wheels, FF, are driven independently to revolve the sizingrollers in the usualmanner; or the said gearwheels may be connected and revolved in anysuitable manner from a common driving-shaft.

The feed-openings, instead of being located in the forward drum-heads,as usual, are arranged at the tops of the drums,vertical guidechutes I Ibeing secured in position thereon, and the forward ends of the upperrollers, D

in either machine being cut away to permit the hat-bodies to fall intothe forward ends of the passageways between the series of rollers.

To the rear drum-head, C O, of each machine is attached the lower end ofan inclined conveyerbox or casing, J J, leading from the usualdischarge-opening in said drum-head to the feed or supply chute I l ofthe other machine.

WVithin each box or casing J J is inclosed an endless carrier, K K, ofsuitable construction, which is in position to receive the hat- To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES 0. GRANT and JARVIS 0. Reese, both ofNewburg, in the. county of Orange and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Hat-Felting Machine, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to provide simple and efficient means forrendering the operation of felting hats continuous, and thus obviatingthe necessity of the operatorstransferring the hat-bodies from thesizing-machine through which they have last passed to the nextsucceding, thereby greatlyincreasing the rapidity of the work.

The invention consists, principally,in connecting the sizing-machines bya .conveyer leading from the discharge opening of one machine to thefeed-opening of the next succeeding.

The inventson also consists in the construction and combination of partsand details, as hereinafter clearly described, and particularly pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is an end elevation of two sizingniachines connected andconstructed according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a reduced 1ongitudinalsectional elevation on the line or m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a reduced planview.

The sizingmachines are arranged in reverse portions and are of the usualdescription, having the horizontal drums A A, supported at their ends onthe vertical frames B B" B B, the heads 0 O (1 G of the drumsbeing'attached to or formed integrally with the vertical end frames.

Each drum A A incloses a series of (in the present case) four taperingsizing-rollers, D D, obliquely arranged with respect to each other andhaving a central passage-way between them for the hat-bodies to befelted.

The rollers of either machine are journaled in the heads of the drums,and the journals are prolonged at one end of each drum and carrygear-wheels E E, surrounding and in gear with central gear-wheels, F F,which revolve on short shafts or studs G G, attached to the dru mheads CC".

one machine and carry them upward into the feed-chute of the othermachine,when they are dumped and again subjected to the act-ion of thesizing-rollers, as before described.

In the illustrations annexed we have shown each carrier-belt mounted ontwo pulleys, L L, each upper pulley,L, being journaled in the top of thecarrier-box, while each lower pulley, L, is fixed upon the projectingjournal of one of the lower sizing-rollers, D D, by the rotation ofwhich motion is imparted to the endless carrier.

In order that access maybe had to the hatbodies while under treatment inthe machines, we provide that part of each carrier-box J J which extendsover the discharge-opening in the drum-head to which it is attached witha hinged door, M, opening outward, by means of which the hat-bodies,having been thoroughly sized and felted by the repeated passages throughthe two machines alternately, maybe removed to allow of the substitutionof a fresh batch of goods through either feed-chute I I.

Hot water is. supplied to either drum A A bodies issuing from thedischarge-opening of dipping them by by pipesN N leading into the bottomof the same, so that by keeping the level of the hot water in the drumsso high as to partially immerse the lower sizing-rollers the hat-bodiesare continually moistened to the required degree, thus avoiding thenecessity of removing the hat-bodies and dipping them into hot water atrepeated stages of the operation.

Vhen dry steam is required, as at the fin ishing stages of thetreatment, the same is admitted through steam-pipes O 0 leading into thetops of the drums.

By thus connecting two independent feltingmachines the unsizedhat-bodies may be thrown promiscuously into the feed-chutes of eithermachine without wrapping them in cloth and hand, as is the usual method.The bodies are kept constantly revolving, folding and unfolding, and arewet by the immersed rollers and by the steam, so that they arethoroughly felted in a short space of time without removing them fromthe machine. A series of machines may be connected in like manner, ifdesired, and the hot-water and steam connections may more of themachines.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is- Y be provided on one or 1. Thecombination, witlr two hat-felting machines, of an endless conveyer forcarrying the hat-bodies from the discharge o ening of one machine intothe feed-opening of thee er, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with two hat-felting I machines, of a conveyer-boxleading from the dischargeopening of one machine into the I feed-openingof the other, an endless revolving carrier in the conveyer-box, and an0penin said conveyer-box over the discharge-opening of the machine,which box opening is closed bya door, substantially as herein shown Iand described.

3. The combination, with two hatfelting conveyer for carrymachinesconnected by a 1 ing the hat-bodies from the discharge-opening of onemachine into the feed-opening of the I other, of ahot-water-supply pipeleading into the roller-inelosing drum of one machine, snbstantially asshown and described.

JAMES 0. GRANT. JARVIS O. BRUSH.

